Nikolai Soloviev. Soviet and Kazakhstani artist, participant of the World War II. He was born in Almaty in 1905 in the family of a small clerk. His father often took him to the mountains: hikes lasted several days. Nature had a huge impact on the future artist. In 1921-1923 he studied in the studio of N.G. Khludov. Somewhat later he studied in the studio led by A.N. Antonov and A.S. Ponomaryov. He graduated from the teacher's seminary, agricultural technical school. He was a soloist of the State Radio and Philharmonic.... далее

Nikolai Soloviev. Soviet and Kazakhstani artist, participant of the World War II. He was born in Almaty in 1905 in the family of a small clerk. His father often took him to the mountains: hikes lasted several days. Nature had a huge impact on the future artist. In 1921-1923 he studied in the studio of N.G. Khludov. Somewhat later he studied in the studio led by A.N. Antonov and A.S. Ponomaryov. He graduated from the teacher's seminary, agricultural technical school. He was a soloist of the State Radio and Philharmonic. During the war he was in the army. Returning to Almaty, served in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Border Troops. After demobilisation finally devoted himself to painting. Nikolay Soloviev left about three thousand works - landscapes of Almaty. Views of the city and its surroundings of Nikolai Soloviev - a joyful immersion in nature, experiencing the change of seasons in the streets, admiring the uncovered trees, flowering gardens. All this creates surprising intonations of the master's works, at least in the half-forgotten names of streets. Their toponymy, geography and history of the city: Artillery, Azhungarskaya, Dunganskaya, shady Grushevaya, Cherry, which preserved the unique atmosphere of the old quarters of the legendary so-called ‘Kompot’. The artist, paying tribute to the old, with the same enduring interest wrote new buildings, buildings that literally before his eyes transformed the landscape, bringing to life more familiar - for us - the city. Since 1951 he taught at the Almaty Art School named after N.V.Gogol (modern Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Oral Tansykbaev). The participant of republican, zonal, all-Union exhibitions. Works are in the Central Frontier Museum of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the State Museum of Art of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in private collections. скрыть